Prodded by the White House, Democrats worked into the night Thursday trying to reach agreement on a budget plan that could be adopted by next Wednesday so as to fall within President Barack Obama's first 100 days. Top White House staff came to the ...
The Bush administration narrowed its differences with Congress over the Treasury Department’s ambitious $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets on Monday, but Republicans are restless and Democrats are poised to demand tens of billions more ...
Novel Federal Challenge to Twelfth Amendment Seeks "Automatic" Result of McCain and Obama as President and Vice-President, Together Author of unusual constitutional challenge claims fundamental error against Preamble of United States Constitution by ...
From Medicare to mortgages, President Bush’s lame-duck status is more and more evident in Congress, as restless Republicans defect and power shifts to activist Cabinet members, such as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, willing to engage with Democrats. ...
For seasonal employers, whether crabbers in Maryland or grand hotels in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the real calendar — not politics — makes the pressure very real and immediate. Immigration reform is raising its head again in Congress, stirring old ...
He’s Joe Camel; she banned smoking. He’s German Catholic; she’s Italian. He likes neat; she likes alliteration. Are these the makings of a second date? No one knows, but House Republican leader John A. Boehner and Speaker Nancy Pelosi are still ...
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